[Beowulf] Does anyone here use the email program "mutt"?

[Sean Mc Grath]

Hi Alexandre,

Get well soon to your friend.

As Tina said, mutt doesn't do this. Here is a procmail example I have used in the past but not for a long time. Sorry if it is no help.

Setting up an out of office, (vacation/ auto-reply).

Edit your ~/.procmailrc file, create it first if needed below, update the "$lOGNAME at fqdn.tldr" entrie(s).
Create the ~/.vacation.msg as your automatic response to send to users. This should be a plaintext file containing the text of the response you want to send to recipients.
taken from http://system.cs.technion.ac.il/Mail_Guides/Configuring%20Vacation%20Mail%20With%20Procmail.htm [DEAD LINK]
### Vaction response,

E.g. ~/.procmailrc contentcs
:0 Whc: vacation.lock
* $^To:.*\<$\LOGNAME\>
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: root@*
## `--> to not reply to root or ops mails, can have multiple `* !^X-Loop:` entries
# store sender's address in vacation.cache if not there already.
| /usr/bin/formail -rD 8192 $HOME/.vacation.cache
:0 ehc
| (/usr/bin/formail -rA"Precedence: junk" -A"x-loop: $lOGNAME at fqdn.tldr" ; cat $HOME/.vacation.msg ) | /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t

To turn off the vacation response comment out or remove the above from your procmail file.


Regards

Sean




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Hi Alexandre,

I do use mutt, but not exclusively/heavily, so I might be wrong, but...

I don't think that's a thing mutt can do. Auto-replies are usually set
on the server/MTA (i.e. procmail, sedmail, MS Exchange...), not in a
mail client? So if it's the sort of mail system that heeds those, that's
done in a .forward file or similar.

(If we're dealing with Microsoft 365 - it's in your settings.)

Tina

On 24/01/2025 14:34, Alexandre Ferreira Ramos via Beowulf wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a friend who is ill and we need to configure his email
> for automatically replying to messages. He uses mutt but we do not know
> how to proceed to set this functionality. I am writing here with the
> hope that someone is knowledgeable about mutt email system.
>
> All the best,
> Alexandre
>
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